St. Dunstan's Review, Vol. 39 PDF Download

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Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265738924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Excerpt from St. Dunstan's Review, Vol. 39: January, 1956 Since the remarks in the October issue headed To See Ourselves have provoked some correspondence, it may do no harm to add a few more observations. For instance, we are often credited with having a sixth sense, but I have never discovered mine. I suppose the truth is that we simply have to make better use of our remaining faculties, especially touch and hearing, so that they become more acute. I wonder whether it is true that those of us who have just a glimmer of sight, like looking through frosted glass, are worse off than those who have no sight at all? Although one would hate to lose that tiny gleam, it has seemed to me that the others have more confidence and are not so dependent upon changing conditions of light and shadow. There is little doubt in my mind that those who lose their sight in childhood gain certain advantages over those who go through the experience in later life. It seems to me that in the early days we were encouraged to think that we were rather a superior kind of blind person, doubtless in the interest of morale, but when I came into close contact with young students who had been educated in a blind school, I was quickly disabused of this idea because of their remarkable sense of direction, their facility in braille, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.